Thursday, September 11, 2014

Let's build Sitecore Open Source with TeamCity

Over the past few years I've been focusing on applications life cycle as one of the key areas of my daily job. I've also spent some nights creating Sitecore PowerCore, Sitecore Courier, and many other build/deploy/test related tools. But one of the projects has always been postponed for different reasons. The project I'd like to share is a build playground which you can touch & feel, and it is built using my favorite tools:

TeamCity

Sitecore PowerCore

Sitecore Courier

and some more

I really like the way the company behind TeamCity (JetBrains) manages their open-source contributions and 3rd-party modules. Every project has a build configuration associated with it, so it allows better collaboration, easier maintenance (I'd never released so many updates to Sitecore Mobile Device Detector if there was no build server to package it every time), testing capabilities, and much more!